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ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

A NTHONY MARSOHALL AND (JASPER L. MARSGHALL, OF EVANSVILLE, IND.

HARNESS-BUCKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 232,526, dated September 21, 1.880. Application tiled December 31, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ANTHONY MARscHALL and CASPER L. MARsoHALL, of Evansville, in the county ot' Vanderburg and State of Indiana, have invented a new and Improved Buckle, of which the following is a specication..

Figure l is a plan ot' the buckle in position ou a hame-tug. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional elevation -on line a: x, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a plan ot the buckle-fran1e with the tongue removed. Fig. 4 represents a longitudinal sectional elevation of the buckle, showing the tongue dropped to admit va strap Within the buckle.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

i The invention consists in a harness-buckle whose swinging tongueis provided with curved notches and a single point at right angles to the niaiu body ot' tongue, said .point being grooved in front and near its upper end, all as hereinafter described.

In the drawings, A represent-s the buckleframe, with cross or tongue bar c, provided with a central notch, b,whicl1 is embraced by the eye of the tongue B.

The eye c of the tongue B is so located or formed in the rear end of the tongue that the metal above the said eye resting 0n the crossbar a is ot' an equal depth or thickness with the leather of the harne-tug O, asshown atm, so that the tongue itself is raised (when the buckle is in position as shown in Fig. 2) on a level and parallel with the upper surface of the said tug. The curved -notches df, whose uses Will be hereinafter explained, are made in this thick portion ot the metal surrounding the eye c.

The point of' the tongue B is bent upward, asat D, and provided with a notch, g. This upright point D may be constructed as part ot' the said tongue, or be constructed separately and attached thereto.

If the tongue B be raised up at the rearend and set on the cross-'bar a at the second notch d, it (the tongue) can then be dropped, or the buckle-frame A can be raised, so that the heaviest ot' straps can be buckled or uubuckled with ease and perfectly straight, as shown at E. Then the said tongue B may be locked by moving it so that the notch fshall rest ou the cross-bar at ,b and the notch g ot' the point D shall engage on the front bar of the buckle, as shown in Fig. 2.

The notch b in the cross-bar c serves to hold the tongue B in position laterally.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A harness-buckle whose swinging tongueB is provided with curved notches lj'at its rear end, and at the front end a single upward ri glitan gled projection, D, having front groove, g, as shown and described, to adapt said buckle to be used in connection with a strap and halnetug, as specified.

ANTHONY MARSOHALL. CASPER LOUIS MARSOHALL. Witnesses:

PETER MATER, ADoLPH MEIGHLE. 

